Girls
The Reed girls kicked off the night in style with a 71-40 road win over the Lancers.
Reed (5-2, 1-0 HDL) started off by grabbing a 7-0 lead early in the first quarter and it never looked back. The Raiders built on the lead, extending it to 13-0 over with less than three minutes to go in the opening quarter.
“We played good tonight,” Reed coach Sara Schopper said. “We’re finally getting some offense going.”
McQueen didn’t score its first points until Erica Sutherland knocked in a pair of free throws for the Lancers. Reed took a 17-6 lead out of the first quarter.
The game got better for Reed and the Sparks school closed out the second half on a 12-2 run for a 35-14 halftime advantage over the host Lancers.
The MHS squad was no match for Reed and the Raiders led by as many as 32, 55-23 on a layup by Danielle Peacon with 32 seconds left in the third quarter.
A final shot with only 22 seconds left in the game by Nyasha LeSure finished off McQueen for the final 31-point margin of victory.
LeSure had 11 points on the night. Micah Walker led Reed with 21 and Peacon posted 19 in Reed’s league opener.
“They’re our leaders,” Schopper said on Walker and Peacon. “Danielle is our senior leader and Micah’s kind of picked up Erica McKenzie’s role a little by bringing up the ball and creating some stuff for her teammates and taking it hard to the hole. We need big points from them.”
Reed is off until Dec. 28th when it will play against Spring Creek.
Boys
The Reed boys were the polar opposite of the girls, falling hard in a lopsided 69-38 loss to McQueen.
“I was just frustrated basically with our performance,” Reed coach Dustin Hall said. “Coming into it, I was confident and I thought we were confident. I thought we were prepared and had a good game plan, but we couldn’t execute.”
Reed (0-7, 0-1 HDL) led early taking an 8-3 lead with exactly four minutes left in the first quarter. However, McQueen rallied for a 7-0 run to close out the last two and a half minutes and went on top 13-10 after eight minutes of play.
The teams battled early in the second but McQueen hit for 11 straight points, leaving Reed behind 29-16. Things didn’t improve much in the waning minutes of the half for Reed. The visiting Raiders wound up trailing 32-20 at halftime.
One of the biggest issues for Reed Tuesday was missing open shots.
“I wanted them to be a little patient,” Hall said. “We were kind of taking the first shot available. I wanted them to slow down and be patient and be a bit more picky on shot selection.”
Hall felt that part of the team’s rush to shoot was McQueen’s defensive pressure.
“McQueen's defensive pressure and length, they’re pretty good defensively,” Hall said. “I think they felt like they had to take the first shot or they may not get a better one.”
Reed scored just nine points in the third quarter to trail 48-29 with just one quarter to go.
McQueen went for an offensive flurry, scoring 21 in its best quarter of the game while Reed scored just nine points in the fourth period, accounting for the 69-38 loss.
Reed will play Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Carson High’s tournament.
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